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William Edward Hartpole Lecky has 21 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either…
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Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last century regarded…
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There are some poisons which, before they kill men, allay pain and diffuse a soothing sensation through the frame. We may recognize…
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Contraction of theological influence has at once been the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance.
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The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. .…
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In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism.
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There are times in the lives of most of us, when we would have given all the world to be as we…
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Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and…
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Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.
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Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked.
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I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so…
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The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous…
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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings…
— Henry Adams
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God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race,…
— John Calvin
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Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give…
— Rebecca West
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EVANGELIST, n. A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) such as assure us of our own salvation and the…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.
— Victor Hugo
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Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.
— Saint Augustine
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And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not?…
— Arthur Rimbaud
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Damnation seize my soul if I give you quarters, or take any from you.
— Blackbeard
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For he who touches the Body of Christ unworthily receives his damnation.
— Peter Chrysologus
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The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them.
— Saint Augustine
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From the Word of God I gather that damnation is all of man, from top to bottom, and salvation is all of…
— Charles Spurgeon
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